Improvement in apparatus for operating organ-bellows



.G. BEACH. Apparatus'for Operating Organ-Bellows. N0,l68,2|2:PatentedSept-28,1875.

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UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

GILES BEACH, OF GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEME NT IN APPARATUS FOR OPERATING ORGAN-B ELLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [68,212, datedSeptember 27, 1875; application filed June 11, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GILES BEACH, ofGloversville, in the county of Fulton and State of New York, haveinvented an Improved Apparatus for Operating Organ-Bellows; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and enactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing, which forms a part of this specification:

My invention relates to certain improvements which are intended moreparticularly for application to the reservoir and feeders. ofchurch-organ bellows, but which may be applied to all instrumentsoperating in a similar manner.

' a top view, representing my invention applied to an organ-bellows.Fig. 2 is a vertical section, taken in the line was of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa side 'view.

A represents the base upon which the apparatus rests, from which baserise a series of standards,B-. The upper ends of the standards areprovided with bearings, b,in which works a shaft, 0, having a drivingwheel or pulley,

c. To the shaft 0 are attached a number of cams, D, corresponding withthe number of feeders. To the standards B are pivoted a series ofelbow-levers, E, also corresponding with the number of feeders. Eachlever has at the end of one arm a friction-roller, e, for engagementwith the face of one of the cams, and at the end of the other arm is alifter, f, which is connected by a strap, 9, with the bottom of one ofthe feeders G. The lifter f has an. areshaped face to render the liftingmotion steady and. uniform. The reservoirH is located immediately overthe feeders, and both the reservoir and the feeders are of the usualconstruction, and connected with each other in the usual manner. As theshaft 0 revolves the cams 1) oscillate the levers E, causing them tooperate the feeders and tosupply wind to the reservoir. The cams D areof elliptical or other suitable form, and each cam is attached to theshaft in such a position as to enable it to give a lifting andcompressing motion to the feeder during about two-thirds of therevolution of the shaft. The cams are attached to the shaft in suchpositions with relation to each other as to cause them to operate uponthe levers successively instead of simultaneously, so'that before onecam and lever have ceased to lift the feeder with which they areconnected the next cam and lever will begin the operation of lifting thenext feeder, and where three or more feeders are employed the firstfeeder is again filled, and its compression is initiated before thethird feeder has become entirely compressed and exhausted, and thiseifect is produced throughout the entire series of feeders. By i byLetters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the reservoir and feeders of an organ-bellows,and the levers for operating said feeders, of the shaft and a series ofcams, substantially as shown and described.

2. The elbow levers E, provided with friction-rollers e, and arc-facedlifters f, in combination with the cams D and feeders G, substantiallyas shown and described.

GILES BEACH. Witnesses:

BENJAMIN W. HOFFMAN, FEED. HAYNES.

